Lyser Ort Lighthouse

Oviši Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in Oviši, Latvia near Tārgale on the Courland Peninsula coast of the Baltic Sea.

Type: Lighthouse
Description: lighthouse in Latvia
Also known as: “Oviai Lighthouse”, “Ovisi Lighthouse”, “Oviši lighthouse”, “Oviši Lighthouse”, “Ovīši Lighthouse”, “Ovišu bāka”, and “Ovīšu bāka”
Address: Oviši, Tārgales pagasts, Ventspils novads, LV-3601

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oviši and Irbene.

Oviši

Village

Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Oviši is a village.

Irbene is a ghost town in Ance Parish, Ventspils Municipality in northwestern Latvia. In 1971, the Soviet Union established the secret radar center Zvezda and built a settlement for military officers and their families, naming it Irbene because of nearby river Irbe. Irbene is situated 9 km east of Lyser Ort Lighthouse.

Lūžņa

Village

Photo: Ed1974LT, CC BY 3.0.

Lūžņa is a populated place in Tārgale parish, Ventspils municipality, Latvia, one of the twelve Livonian villages on the Livonian coast. Lūžņa was a long fishing hamlet at the coast of the Baltic Sea about 30 kilometers from Ventspils in the direction of Kolka. Lūžņa is situated 10 km east of Lyser Ort Lighthouse.

Lyser Ort Lighthouse

Categories: building, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Tārgales pagasts, Ventspils Municipality, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude

57.5687° or 57° 34′ 7″ north

Longitude

21.71589° or 21° 42′ 57″ east

Elevation

11 metres (36 feet)

Open location code

9G93HP98+F9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 933319242

OpenStreetMap feature

building=lighthouse

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=lighthouse

GeoNames ID

12089037

Wikidata ID

Q16348532

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From French to Polish—“Lyser Ort Lighthouse” goes by many names.

French: “phare d’Oviši”
French: “Phare d’Oviši”
German: “Leuchtturm Ovīši”
German: “Ovisu Leuchtturm”
Latvian: “Ovišu bāka”
Polish: “Latarnia morska Ovišu”

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